Graham Ashton
Graham Ashton is the author and maintainer of Nesta CMS. He lives in Manchester, in the UK.
He writes a technical blog at https://effectif.com and can be found at @gma@hachyderm.io on Mastodon.
Articles by Graham
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Setting up rack-codehighlighter
If you write about software, you can make code look more attractive by adding syntax highlighting to your pages. Nesta is a Sinatra app (and is therefore built on top of Rack), which makes it easy to setup syntax highlighting with the
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Making an Art Directed blog
When Geoffrey Grosenbach released the new PeepCode blog it made quite a splash. Each article is beautifully presented with its own unique design. When he [wrote about][peepcode] how he'd based his blog on Nesta I got lots of questions asking how to achieve something similar.
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Using a different Markdown processor
There are a handful of Markdown processing libraries available for Ruby, each with different advantages and features. Since version 0.9.11, Nesta uses Ryan Tomayko's [Tilt][] library to work out which processor to use when rendering a file within your
contentfolder, which will try and pick a suitable processor for you. This recipe shows you how to change it.